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Paul Myers

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Founder - CEO
Encinitas | United States

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Snowboarding
Skateboarding
Surfing
Mountain biking and making the world a better place.

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In my own words

Paul

Paul is the Cofounder/CEO of STOKE.fund, a mission driven FinTech company - powered by Jib Technologies, whose mission is to remove friction & latency from payments while enabling financial inclusion for the youth as well as unbanked, underbanked & unhappily banked.

Previously, Paul cofounded H.E.A.L. Together, LLC, where he chaired the firm's Environment, Youth & Music related focus groups as well as HEAL's Action Sports group. Educated in International Business Administration & Marketing, he founded 540 Productions, a leading youth culture & action sports marketing firm. He's provided marketing & consulting services to global giants such as Anheuser Busch, AT&T, BP, Coca-Cola, DaimlerChrysler, Sears Holdings, Uber, Universal Music Group, Wells Fargo & Visa as well as lifestyle brands including Nike, Quiksilver, Red Bull & Volcom, to name a few. Myers has also collaborated with hundreds of brands, film makers & professional athletes involved in surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding & other action sports and promoted a myriad musicians & bands, including Awolnation, Fall Out Boy, Hoobastank, Iron Maiden, Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, Jimi Hendrix, My Chemical Romance, Pennywise, Plain White T's, Rascal Flatts, Rise Against, Sum 41, Switchfoot, The Offspring, Yellowcard and more… Over 250 artists and counting.

Paul is a regular guest speaker at Musicians Institute, Chapman University & University of San Diego. He has been quoted in W Magazine, Surfer & Surfing Magazines, Transworld Surf, Transworld Business, Snowboarding, Skateboarding, EXPN the Magazine and other media. His years of experience in music, sports & youth culture help him develop & promote highly successful projects & programs. He spends most of his time out of the office surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding and riding dirt & mountain bikes with his teenage daughter & son.

Trajectory

Jan 2013 — Now
Founder - CEO · Jib Technologies, Inc.
Revolutionary new cloud-based stored value, rewards and loyalty solution designed for teen focused retailers built on successful experience and delivery of digital loyalty, rewards & offers since 2003 combined with successful trials of mobile payments via P2P, NFC and QR since 2006. Jib Technologies offers teen focused retailers lower fees, customer loyalty opportunities and exceptional security features via a proprietary gift (stored value) card and loyalty solution designed to lower a merchant's cost per transaction thus reducing the cost of payment acceptance and reducing the incidence of fraud while delivering digital rewards, offers and other CRM programs. Think Apple Pay for ANY mobile phone with BitCoin like security!
Jan 2001 — Now
Founder, CEO & Managing Director · 540 Productions
540 is a conduit to youth culture and lifestyle enthusiasts. A marketing agency that fuses action sports, entertainment, and youth culture via unique concepts, promotions, and events offering an array of marketing services including creative services, affinity marketing, event marketing, mobile marketing, sampling, licensing, trend research and promotions. Based in Carlsbad, CA, 540 partners with brands, as well as agencies, to create, develop, and execute turnkey marketing efforts that increase brand loyalty, create visibility, and reinforce image.
Jan 2010 — Jan 2011
Founding Partner · H.E.A.L. Together, LLC
If we band together, we can make a difference!
Jan 2006 — Jan 2010
Board Member · Contour, Inc.
Contour is the market leader in HD Wearable Camcorders, enabling modern day explorers to tell their stories of action, adventure, and travel through video. Leading the way in making action video easy to shoot and share, Contour is dedicated to creating simple tools that enable hands-free capture and effortless sharing of video online with the world. For more information about Contour please visit www.contour.com
Jan 1999 — Jan 2001
President · Pie.com
Through a merger/acquisition deal combining several of my existing retail, mail-order, manufacturing and media brands Pie.com was launched in 2000 - a premiere Internet based "portal" combining brick and mortar retail, e-commerce, mail-order, television and magazines to offer consumers everything from content to products relative to Action Sports, often referred to as Extreme Sports. Pie.com utilized a convergent media model to leverage its retail operations via media related holdings such as EXTV on Fox Sports Net and its magazines, PLOW Snowboard Magazine and Wide Open Motocross Magazine. To see the current operations, visit <http://www.extremepie.com/> and sister sites.
Jan 1996 — Jan 2001
President & CEO · Lucky Lucy's Mail Order
Lucky Lucy's was founded in October 1992 by former Plan B and H-Street co-founder Mike Ternasky along with Damon Way and Ken Block. After being acquired by 540 in 1996, Lucky Lucy's grew to be the largest skateboard related mail order catalog in the world. The day after Alloy Online announced the acquisition of CCS, Lucky Lucy's was targeted for an M&A by Hardcloud.com as well as Swell.com. In the end, Lucky Lucy's was acquired by Pie.com which was founded by Jake Burton's cousin.
Jan 1994 — Jan 2001
Founder & CEO (Decadent Boss) · 540, Inc.
Internationally recognized specialty retailer, manufacturer and marketer in the Action Sports Industry.

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